 YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 103edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 655 pages
...Valley Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises...supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas 1 prince of Abyssinia. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor in whose dominions the Father... | |
 | England - 1923 - 890 pages
...Abyssinia,' "who Listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises...of the present day will be supplied by the morrow." He does not shut his eyes to the difficulties which are ahead of him. He wishes to conduct the business... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - Education - 1983 - 576 pages
...it. "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and persue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises...morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abbissinia." Attend to it, yes, but do not expect to participate in it as if it were your own search—... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1896 - 1030 pages
...credulity to the whisperings of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who believe that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day^ will be helped by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, the Prince of Abyssinia." Yes, I think that... | |
 | Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - Literary Collections - 1985 - 280 pages
...couplet: "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises...morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia." By the end of the book we may suspect that the narrator himself, Olympian though his wisdom... | |
 | Ranjit Chatterjee, Colin Nicholson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 408 pages
...whole. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and persue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises...deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the ' All quotations from Rasselas are taken from the edition of RW Chapman (Oxford, 1927). Chapter and... | |
 | Ann Messenger - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 208 pages
...time. "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince... | |
 | William J. Gilmore - History - 1992 - 572 pages
...VALLEY Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises...morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. — Samuel Johnson The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia I grew up during the 1940s... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 212 pages
...time: "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises...morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia" (YJ 16:7). One might say that the story's conclusion is implicit in this syntax and that... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...ironies: "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, who expect that age will perform the promises...attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia" (p. 7). Or, more subtly: "The prince, whose humanity would not suffer him to insult misery with reproof,... | |
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